
Pluto, they can say what they like about you, but we’ll always have Paris.
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Pluto, they can say what they like about you, but we’ll always have Paris.
BIGGER IMAGE RIGHT HERE
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I Return to the Place I was Born
From my youth up I never liked the city.
I never forgot the mountains where I was born.
The world caught me and harnessed me
And drove me through dust, thirty years away from home.
Migratory birds return to the same tree.
Fish find their way back to the pools where they were hatched.
I have been over the whole country,
And I have come back at last to the garden of my childhood.
My farm is only ten acres.
The farm house has eight or nine rooms.
Elms and willows shade the back garden.
Peach trees stand by the front door.
The village is out of sight.
You can hear dogs bark in the alleys,
And cocks crow in the mulberry trees.
When you come through the gate into the court
You will find no dust or mess.
Peace and quiet live in every room.
I am content to stay here the rest of my life.
At last I have found myself.
— Tao Yuan Ming (Tao Qian) Chinese, 365-427
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Three cheers for the Red, White & Blue!
Man Very Early Made Jars Stand Up Nearly Perfect.
Pluto has always been a planet to me and always will be.
That picture looks like the moon after someone parked it in a back alley of downtown NYFC all night.
(where my spray paint can is?)
No problems there a little global warming couldn’t help.
@ghostsniper: I learned the mnemonic as: My Very Elegant Mother Just Sat Upon Nine Porcupines.
“We’ll always have Paris”
LOL – I made Geoff C. a pillow using old maps of Oregon and Washington. It was from a novelty kerchief from the 40’s or 50’s with all the iconic sights and products of the two states. On the back I embroidered: “We may never have Paris. . .but we’ll always have Dismal Nitch.” (Look it up, Dismal Nitch)
@Skorpion. ever heard this’n?
George Edison’s Oldest Gurl Rode A Pig Home Yesterday